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Plinkety-plink! Not

MrSmith1 — Sat, 05 May 2012 23:21:15 +0000

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Plinkety-plink! Not Jefferson! Walter was the dumb waiter! (sigh) Man, you miss one day of writing class and no-one understands your comedic syntax. Frankly, I blame it all on Ronald Reagan who cut syntaxes on the upper 1%. Instead of detailed speeches on reforming the tax code, Reagan just said, "Taxes bad," and soon the entire upper crust was indulging in so many syns you couldn't count them on two hands and one foot ... if that was your idea of a good time.

Unfortunately, he was also

Verified Atheist — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:33:52 +0000

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Unfortunately, he was also peddling this on The Daily Show with Jon Stewart fairly recently (I think within the last week), and Stewart let him get away with most of it. I really like Stewart, but I think when dealing with issues of religion, he's way out of his element.

I must have run across this

Richard Day — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:24:39 +0000

In reply to David Barton is a liar - this is what Thomas Jefferson really wanted

I must have run across this idiot on cable but I really am unfamiliar with him and hope that condition remains as is.

Wiki tells me:

Barton holds no formal credentials in history or law, and scholars dispute the accuracy and integrity of his assertions about history, accusing him of practicing misleading historical revisionism, "pseudoscholarship" and "outright falsehoods"

I suppose his point is that school just fucks up your mind anyway.

He and beckerhead and rusho shunned opportunities at educational institutions.

I suppose the lack of formal education helped them vent their prejudices without remorse; made life more black and white (so to speak) and evidently made them a lot of money.

Give me a plinkin break. [New

A Guy Called LULU — Sat, 05 May 2012 21:13:01 +0000

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Give me a plinkin break. [New non-cussword] Thomas Jefferson was not named Walter, at least not in my Texas schoolbook, which was fur shure the bestest available anywhere in Texas. [Cat fur is for kitten britches but fur shure is the straight skinny.] Those books are gettin' way too politically correct, though. The latest addition of that text calls him a "Floundering Father", says he had a 'slow connection,' but I don't think his skills as a fisherman are relevant to a true understanding of his place in history like we got in the good old days when boats were made of wood and men were made of steal.

Educashun, bleh, just raises too many questions. KISS is my favorite acronym. Says it all for me. 'Keep it stupid, stupid.'

The South will rise again. And Again. And...

Brilliant reporting, as

MrSmith1 — Sat, 05 May 2012 20:29:48 +0000

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Brilliant reporting, as usual, Mr. Wolfrum. Although I admit I was shocked to learn that the former host of Family Feud, Richard Dawkins, was an atheist.

And that Thomas Paine sure had a lot of common sense, didn't he? I hear he knew Joan Rivers in the biblical sense, which is the one sense even an atheist embraces from the bible.

Did you know that Thomas Jefferson once made an elephant disappear using only a dumbwaiter ... he was named Walter ... but never mind that.

ADAMS was the actual inventor

Qnonymous — Sat, 05 May 2012 20:04:12 +0000

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ADAMS was the actual inventor of the term LOL, which came as he retweeted Jefferson's comment. Which just goes to show, for those paying attention, that Jefferson >>> Adams.

Correction: Although it is

Qnonymous — Sat, 05 May 2012 19:59:52 +0000

In reply to David Barton is a liar - this is what Thomas Jefferson really wanted

Correction: Although it is commonly said that Thomas Jefferson was the first person to ever use the term "LOL," this is untrue, and a slur on the man.

The actual Jefferson quote was far more eloquent, "Mitt Romney for President? LMFAO."